CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM ALEXANDER HAIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-505-1-20-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 18, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/09/30: LOC-HAK-505-1-20-7
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I"!TE!?t,! TIOrTIAL COMMISSION" UNIT IL YOU SO DIRECT. 1170 NOT ACCEPT STATE'S
VIE!4 THAT TEN DAYS !.!SILL BE RE! UIR7D ON THIS IT. HO's-EVER, YOU SPOU!LD
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IS AS5L1?El). HE RAISED THIS TI'! i~?f~ETIi1r3 WITH PEE. P OLIT APl HOUR PCO AS D
I CON'TTRIn1ED THAT THIS 'WAS YOUR VIET.4 AS T,!ELL. IF THERE". IS AkTY "TODIFI-
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I't1r, 'SPECIALLY If LIGHT OF SUISTM!TIAL R' DUCTIO!' WHICH WE YAV'E. ALREADY
I !STITI'TED . GIVEN,QUR LEADER'S ATTXTUDE, GIVEN THE FACT THAT
TE7MT0P,TION OR HALT TO 9OMBIPD WILL BE EXTREMELY CONTROV;PSIAL IF NOT
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OF A N IMMEDIATE FI1'lllL SETTLEMENT. HP,MOI SHOULD SE TOLD THAT OUR LEADER
IS A1:1AMMMAh!T ON THIS IS`?UE.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/09/30: LOC-HAK-505-1-20-7
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